Improvement in ftymps



. in Pumps; andI do hereby declare. that the followrnotionvof thedriving mechanism, and avoid the unearned sw-ie aient dtiliiw.

-Letters Patent No. 103,960, elated June 7, 1870.

IMROVEMENT 1N PUMPS.

The Schedule referred to in these LettersvPatent and making part of the.same

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, BENNETT C. BAILEY, of Constitution, in the `county*of Vashington and State of Ohio, have invented a new and usefulImprovement ing is a full, clear, and exact description of the same,reference being had to the annexed drawings, making part of thisspecification, in which- Figure l is a perspective view;

Figure 2 is au elevation of one of the eccentrics and pump-rods; and

Figure 3 is a perspective view of the chamber, showing the interiorconstruction in dotted lines.

The same letters are employed in all the figures in the indication ofthe same parts.

My improvement consists in the arrangement of a series Of pump-cylindersin vone case, said cylinders being connected by intermediate chambersformed in the case so that the water shall 'flow through the series,entering at the bottom of one cylinder and escaping from the top thereofinto the next in the. series, each cylinder having its own plunger. i

The said plungers are operated by eccentrics placed on onedriving-shaft, and are so set thatthey shali be in diil'erent partsoftheir strokes at the same time, so as to cause a continuous discharge ofthe water from the spout, andalso to canse a uniform andv con` tinuousresistance in order to maintain the regular equal resistance incident topumps having a single plunger eject-ing the water only as the plungerrises.

In the' annexed drawings-- A is` a metallic case, in which the pumps areall inclosed, the plunger-s playing vertically in a series of tubes, a,al, f, and c, v

The tube a is connected with the water in the well by a pipe openinginto it at the bottom. These tubes are connected on the sidcs so as toform two compartments in the ease, one on each side ofthe tubes.

Partitions are extended across one of the compartments from the tubes aIand a?, to the case, Vso as to subdivide it into three separatecompartments.

The water drawn into the tube a tiows ont through a hole in the topthereof into the compartment b. From the bottom of the -latter it owsinto the tube a., and from the top thereof into the compartment lf2, andthence successively through the intermediate similar parts to the tubea, from which it flows into the cornpartment on the opposite side of thetubes, and" thence upward through the tube a4, opening through the topof thecase into the ednc-t-ion-pipe.

Plungers C are placed in the several tubes having van ordinary valve,C', rising to permit the'water 'to pass through the plunger-on thedescending stroke, and closing ou its seat with the ascending stroke.

These plunger-s are attached to the rods D, on the upper ends of whichare the yokes D', which incluse the circular cams E, eccentricallyattached to the shaft F, which may be driven by any convenient power.

These ecccntrics E are set at right angles to one another in continuousseries, so that the first shall have risen one-half its stroke when thesecond one begins -to rise, and so on, the third beginning to rise whenthe first begins to descend, so that the wat-er raised by the first inthe series shall be carried from one pump to another, and expelled in acontinuous stream, the. pumps' offering a constant resistance to thepower used to drive them, as two of the plungers will always be risingin differents parts of their stroke while the other two are in likemanner descending.

The rods D'poi'k through stuffing-boxes in the ordinary manner. No othervalves are necessary than those in the plungers.

That I claim as my invent-ion, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

The arrangement, within a tight casing, subdivided into compartments,.ofa series of lifting-pumps, the plungers of which are set in such amanner that they shall be in diiferent parts of their' strokesat thesame time, substantially as and for the purpose set fort-h. l

In testimony whereof I l1ave,`signed my name to this specification inthe presence oftwo subscribing witnesses. v

y B. G. BAILEY.

Witnesses:

STEPHEN NEWTON, Guns. H. NEWTON.

